Lifelong Learning

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Professor John Mears, Faculty/Program Chair

Graduate Liberal Studies Academic Council, 2016–2017 Professors: Caroline Brettell (Anthropology), Robert Hunt (Theology)
Associate Professor: Bill Barnard (Religious Studies) 
Assistant Professor: Nick Tsarevsky (Chemistry)
Senior Lecturer: Bruce Levy (English)​
Professor of Practice: Rick Halperin (History)
Adjunct Faculty: Janet Harris (English)
Emeritus Professors: John Mears (History)

Department Information

The Department of Lifelong Learning promotes personal enrichment and achievement of potential through a broad interdisciplinary curriculum. Its credit and non-credit offerings broaden students’ perspectives, insights and understandings of the world. At the heart of the Lifelong Learning programs – which include the Doctor of Liberal Studies, the Master of Liberal Studies and a noncredit creative writing program – is the belief that people can continue to grow personally and professionally throughout their lives.

Programs

• Liberal Studies, D.L.S.

• Liberal Studies, M.L.S.

• Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study

Courses

• HUMN 7302 - Transnational Traditions
• HUMN 7303 - The Cultural Politics of Pop, Rock, and Rap
• HUMN 7311 - Capstone: Liberal Studies
• HUMN 7312 - Islam in State and Society
• HUMN 7315 - Religions of Asia
• HUMN 7316 - Female Sanctity in the Middle Ages
• HUMN 7320 - Lesbian and Gay Literature
• HUMN 7330 - Law and Literature
• HUMN 7331 - Getting Organized: Personhood in the Age of Corporate Enterprise
• HUMN 7335 - The Myths of Our Time: Introduction to Media Literacy
• HUMN 7336 - Creativity: Historical and Personal
• HUMN 7350 - Special Topics in Humanities
• HUMN 7351 - War and Literature: Soldiers’ Tales
• HUMN 7356 - Darwin in His Time and Ours
• HUMN 7357 - Intercultural Communication
• HUMN 7359 - Just Between Sisters: Relationships of Mixed-Race Women and Girls
• HUMN 7360 - Sex, Death, and Identity in Modern China
• HUMN 7361 - Spiritual and Mystical Paths of Today: A Multifaith Exploration
• HUMN 7362 - The Art of Persuasive Writing: From Cicero to Churchill to Tweets
• HUMN 7367 - Women and Minorities in the Media
• HUMN 7369 - Business and the American Dream in Literature
• HUMN 7375 - The African Diaspora: Literature and Culture of Black Liberation
• HUMN 7376 - Latin American Literature and Culture: Revolution, Feminine Writing, Dictatorship, and Immigration
• HUMN 7379 - Plants of the Gods: Religion and Psychedelics
• HUMN 7380 - Waking Up: The Philosophy of Yoga and the Practice of Meditation
• HUMN 7381 - Organizational Communications
• HUMN 7382 - Cultures of Displacement: The Writing of Race, Migration, and Diaspora
• HUMN 7385 - Transforming Our Educational DNA
• HUMN 7391 - To Be Human: Perspectives on Common Historical Experience
• HUMN 7392 - To Be Human: The Transformation of the Psyche
• HUMN 7393 - To Be Human: The Art of Creativity and Expression
• HUMN 7394 - To Be Human: East Meets West - Intelligence, History, Culture, and Society
• HUMN 7395 - To Be Human: The Struggle for Human Rights
• HUMN 7396 - To Be Human: Science and Society
• HUMN 7397 - Under the Influence: Discourses of Intoxication, Addiction, and Recovery
• HUMN 7399 - The Literature of Atrocity: Literary Representations of the Struggle for Human Rights

• SCCL 6100 - Independent Study
• SCCL 6200 - Independent Study
• SCCL 6300 - Independent Study
• SCCL 6303 - Bioethics and Public Policy
• SCCL 6312 - Energy and Economy
• SCCL 6319 - Water, Climate, and Environmental Change
• SCCL 6389 - The Origin and Evolution of Life
• SCCL 6397 - Earth Matters: An Introduction to Global Environmental Quality
• SCCL 7302 - Culture and the Environment: Humans in the Natural World
• SCCL 7303 - Climate Change and Society
• SCCL 7304 - The Human Ecology of Food: Sustenance and Sustainability
• SCCL 7330 - Science, Technology, and Society
• SCCL 7350 - Special Topics in Science and Culture
• SCCL 7351 - Macrocosmos Microcosmos: Big Bang Theory and Beyond

• SOSC 6100 - Independent Study
• SOSC 6200 - Independent Study
• SOSC 6300 - Independent Study
• SOSC 6301 - Terrorism, Torture, and International Law
• SOSC 6309 - The Struggle for Human Rights
• SOSC 6314 - Living Through the American Revolution
• SOSC 6329 - The American Presidency
• SOSC 6330 - Politics and Film
• SOSC 6331 - Presidential Elections and American Politics
• SOSC 6332 - Ideas Shaping the American Character I: 1607-1876
• SOSC 6333 - Ideas Shaping the American Character II: 1877-Present
• SOSC 6342 - America’s Defining Moment: The American Civil War and Reconstruction
• SOSC 6344 - Contemporary Economics
• SOSC 6353 - Women in U.S. History
• SOSC 6355 - America Enraged: From Integration to Watergate, 1954-1974
• SOSC 6356 - The Politics and Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
• SOSC 6367 - Comparative Revolutions: A Historical Perspective
• SOSC 6368 - Silk Roads and Silicon Superhighways: Religion, Conquest, and Trade
• SOSC 6376 - Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: Renaissance to Enlightenment
• SOSC 6377 - Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: Romanticism to the Present
• SOSC 6378 - Mobilization and Movements in Nondemocracies
• SOSC 6382 - Women in American History, 1865 to the Present
• SOSC 7305 - Special Topics in Human Rights
• SOSC 7324 - The Impact of the Arab Spring on Israel and the Middle East
• SOSC 7330 - Modernity and Crises of Identity: The Reorientation of Western Culture 1872-1917
• SOSC 7331 - Warfare in the Modern World
• SOSC 7334 - Bollywood/Hollywood: Cinema in India and the West
• SOSC 7335 - Wrestling With God: The Triumph and Tragedy of Zionism in Israel
• SOSC 7336 - Mexican History Through Film
• SOSC 7350 - Special Topics in Social Science
• SOSC 7354 - The Intellectual History of Capitalism
• SOSC 7358 - Refugees and Displaced People: Victims of War, Genocide, and Ethnic Conflict
• SOSC 7359 - International Human Rights Tribunals and Courts Post-Nuremburg
• SOSC 7360 - Human Trafficking: Global and Public Policy Perspectives
• SOSC 7361 - Literature and Capitalism
• SOSC 7362 - Global Sport and Nationalism
• SOSC 7363 - The Historian’s Craft and the Novelist’s Art: Race in Early America
• SOSC 7364 - Communication to Reduce Human Injustice: Genocide
• SOSC 7366 - Contemporary Jihad in A Globalizing World: Isis, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban
• SOSC 7367 - Global and Transnational Feminism: The Struggle for Global Justice
• SOSC 7368 - Education, Equality, and Human Rights
• SOSC 7369 - India Today: Religion, Environment, and Culture
• SOSC 7370 - Religion and Politics in 20th-Century India
• SOSC 7371 - The Languages of Advertising
• SOSC 7375 - The Ethics of Human Rights in Islamic Legal Theory
• SOSC 7376 - Islamic Law: Premodernity to Modernity
• SOSC 7377 - Slavery and the American Republic
• SOSC 7378 - Religion and Politics: Intersections in the U.S. and the Muslim World
• SOSC 7379 - Ethics and Human Rights
• SOSC 7380 - The Islamic Civilization
• SOSC 7381 - The Black Struggle for Freedom